To add color, I used Vibez in Jeni B Bleu and in Glorious Day as long as Spritz in Tuscan Sun. A Stampendous stamp with black Archival ink and some modeling paste through a Tim Holtz and a 7Dots Studios stencils completed the background for this layout.

You can order Shimmerz products directly from the Shimmerz Paints Store. If you do, don't forget to mention my name (Karine Gagnon) in the «Instruction to Merchant/seller» part of your order form (just below your name and address). After clicking «add», you'll get a FREE product in the color of your choice.

You probably saw, if you follow my blog regularly, that I've stepped down from my previous store DT. Afterward, I received an offer from Scrapbook Plus des Laurentides to join their team, and I said yes. So here I am, a proud member of this store.

Friday, May 15, 2015

Bonjour,Hi,
C'est à mon tour aujourd'hui de présenter une création sur le blog de Shimmerz. J'ai utilisé les Shimmerz.I'm up today on the Shimmerz's blog to share with you a layout that I made using beautiful Shimmerz paints.

As always, my first step was to apply a thin coat of clear gesso. Next, I applied randomly three colors of Shimmerz. I just love the rich colors and the shimmering effect I get when I use these. For this layout, I used Magenta, Sugar Plum and Royal Purple. To help with blending, I sprayed a bit of water.

Even though I adore this color combo, I had a hard time putting this layout together. The more time goes, the more white backgrounds overwhelm me, and I wasn't able to find a background paper with those colors that wasn't too bright. I finally chose this grey background which I toned down with white gesso.

I'm here today to show you a layout inspired by circles. I was highly inspired by a wonderful layout by Nadia Cannizzo (hers was aqua and purple). As the sketch was pretty dynamic, I chose this picture of my daughter in front of this wall, which was colourful! I used Gelatos to add color to my circles.

I'm up today to show you my new blog title image. I chose to ask Scrapzone's forum members to create something in a different format: anything but square! You should see it on top of my blog in the next few weeks. What do you think?